Through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places. –E. E. Cummings

Saturday, March 17, 2018

hush

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The
Tao originally is free from speech. Only in relation to beings does
language develop. The Tao is originally free from action. Only in
relation to beings does behaviour develop. (13.7)

Language
here stands for the discriminating classifications of consciousness,
just as action refers to intentional, artificial, man-made activity. Its
opposite is found in non-knowledge, unknowing, and no-mind. The
spontaneity of the innermost human psyche is beyond language. Only in
freedom from language can human beings be close to the Tao. The more one
turns away from language, the more one approaches the Tao.–Livia KohnTaoist Mystical Philosophy